Church of St. Vaclav in Sazovice

Location: Svazovice, Czech Republic

“I wanted to dematerialize the building. It looks like something light, abstract, bright and natural. It evokes more paper than brick. It's like a ring of paper with cutting you push or pull to get more light inside. Light becomes a factor which creates a lack of interface between what is verifiable by the senses, and what is beyond material world. The scale is based on Prague's chapel, the perimeter of the church is circumscribed the square of Prague's chapel. Its cylindrical mass refers to the time of St. Wenceslas, when rotundas were built.”

Architect:
ATELIER ŠTĚPÁN - Marek Jan Štěpán - www.atelier-stepan.cz
Collaboration:
František Brychta, Jan Martinek, Tomáš Jurák, Hana Kristková
Reliefs:
Vladimír Kokolia